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The revolution of Peter the Great
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ISBN: 0674011961 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge ; London Harvard University Press

Peter the Great changes Russia
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ISBN: 0669827010 Year: 1972 Publisher: Lexington Heath

Die Abstrakta auf -nie/-tie, -ka/-ok, -ost', -stvo/-stvie, -ie/'e in den "Pis'ma i Bumagi" Peters des Grossen
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ISBN: 3876901596 Year: 1978 Publisher: München Sagner

The Petrine revolution in Russian culture
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ISBN: 0674029968 9780674029965 9780674013162 0674013166 0674013166 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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The reforms initiated by Peter the Great transformed Russia not only into a European power, but into a European culture - a shift, argues James Cracraft, that was nothing less than revolutionary. Cracraft now turns his attention to the changes that occurred in Russian verbal culture.

The Revolution of Peter the Great
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ISBN: 0674029941 9780674029941 0674011961 9780674011960 0674019849 9780674019843 0674262816 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Linking together Peter the Great's many reforms of state and society, Cracraft argues, was nothing less than a cultural revolution. By the end of the 18th century, Russia was poised to play a critical role in the Napoleonic wars and boasted an elite culture about to burst into its golden age.

Peter the Great : the struggle for power, 1671-1725
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ISBN: 110712378X 0521030676 0511119674 0511328400 0511496699 1280154888 0511154518 051104402X 0511018398 9780511018398 9780511044021 051102875X 9780511028755 9780511119675 9780521805858 0521805856 9780511496691 9781280154881 9780521030670 9780511328404 9780511154515 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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A narrative of the fifty years of political struggles at the Russian court, 1671-1725. This book shows how Peter the Great was not the all-powerful tsar working alone to reform Russia, but that he colluded with powerful and contentious aristocrats in order to achieve his goals. After the early victory of Peter's boyar supporters in the 1690s, Peter turned against them and tried to rule through favourites - an experiment which ended in the establishment of a decentralized 'aristocratic' administration, followed by an equally aristocratic Senate in 1711. The aristocrats' hegemony came to an end in the wake of the affair of Peter's son, Tsarevich Aleksei, in 1718. After that moment Peter ruled through a complex group of favourites, a few aristocrats and appointees promoted through merit, and carried out his most long-lasting reforms. The outcome was a new balance of power at the centre and a new, European, conception of politics.

Peter the Great : A Biography
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ISBN: 9780300143744 0300143745 0300094264 9780300094268 030010300X 9780300103007 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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Peter the Great (1672-1725), tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character. This book provides a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life-both public and private-and his reign.Drawing on his letters and papers, as well as on other contemporary accounts, the book provides new insights into Peter's complex character, giving information on his actions, deliberations, possessions, and significant fantasy world--his many disguises and pseudonyms, his interest in dwarfs, his clowning and vandalism. It also sheds fresh light on his relationships with individuals such as his second wife Catherine and his favorite, Alexander Menshikov. The book includes discussions of Peter's image in painting and sculpture, and there are two final chapters on his legacy and posthumous reputation up to the present.

Russia in the age of Peter the Great
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ISBN: 0300075391 Year: 1998 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university


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Petr I : predanii͡a, legendy, skazki i anekdoty : sbornik
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ISBN: 5824200084 Year: 1993 Publisher: Moskva : Izd-vo im. Sabashnikovykh,


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Terror & greatness : Ivan & Peter as Russian myths.
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ISBN: 9780801448133 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell university press

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